Idk why we can't just say "we trust liberal institutions to do what they do, and where we can't trust them, we fight them."
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It has to be "don't say positive things about the FBI in the age of Trump bc the FBI does evil shit all the time." Well, duh.
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But shouldn't we celebrate that we can increasingly trust liberal institutions to resist encroachments on liberalism from the right?
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Even as we deplore liberal institutions for their illiberal and inhumans tactics where liberalism is threatened from the left/below?
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Used to be, these so-called liberal institutions WERE the threat to liberalism from the right. (To a greater degree than at present.)
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We have more power over them now than then. That matters. It's moving too slowly, and our leaders adapt to the institutions and vice verse.
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But we can and should celebrate these institutions when they resist fascism and racism.
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And deplore them when they defend pro-hegemonic anti-liberation liberalism "by any means necessary" including state surveillance and murder.
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